 | 1883 - 420 pages
...a specimen of the sonnets, of which there are some twenty-three in the volume. " EARTH'S SECRET. " Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open,...share With bird and beast; raised letters for the bund. Not where the troubled passions toss the mind, In turbid cities, can the key be bare. It hangs... | |
 | 1907 - 854 pages
...one of the approaches by which I we may draw near to Nature, and 1 . fruitfully read her meanings: Not solitarily In fields we find Earth's secret open, though one page is. there.' A Faith on Trial records how themusic of children's voices freed the poet's soul from the dead weight... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 258 pages
...rural seclusion of past times. The best life is that which is lived part in town and part in country. Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open,...thither fare, Close interthreading nature with our kind.1 It is not without significance for us that ' Earth's greatest," Shakespeare, joined urban and... | |
 | Maurice Buxton Forman - 1909 - 252 pages
...give a specimen of the sonnets, of which there are some twenty-three in the volume. EARTH'S SECRET. " Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open,...With bird and beast ; raised letters for the blind. 228 Not where the troubled passions toss the mind, In turbid cities, can the key be bare. It hangs... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1910 - 1082 pages
...neither in the solitude of the fields nor amidst the troubled passions of turbid cities. The key " Hangs for those who hither thither fare, Close interthreading nature with our kind." Meredith's own desire therefore is thus to interthread the two. The deepest root of his interest in... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1912 - 742 pages
...clearly distinguishing it from that of Wordsworth, though he does not mention him, in Earth's Secret : Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open,...speak, of what men were, And have become, are wise. If we are to retain " solidity and vision," we must always keep in contact with Earth, " For Earth,... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1912 - 740 pages
...clearly distinguishing it from that of Wordsworth, though he does not mention him, in Earth's Secret : Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open,...speak, of what men were, And have become, are wise. If we are to retain " solidity and vision," we must always keep in contact with Earth, " For Earth,... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1919 - 332 pages
...in its preselit phase but in the course of its development, if we would know 'Earth's Secret': — " Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open,...share With bird and beast; raised letters for the Mi ml. Not where the troubled passions toss the mind, In turbid cities, can the key be bare. It hangs... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1919 - 340 pages
...in its present phase but in the course of its development, if we would know 'Earth's Secret': — " Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open, though one page is there; Her plairiest, such as children spell, and share With bird and beast; raised letters for the blind. Not... | |
 | Bryn Mawr College - 1921 - 278 pages
...hidden from him. For Hardy's counsel Meredith might have written the sonnet called "Earth's Secret": Not solitarily in fields we find Earth's secret open,...With bird and beast; raised letters for the blind. Nor where the troubled passions toss the mind, In turbid cities, can the key be bare. It hangs for... | |
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Not where the troubled passions toss the mind, In turbid cities, can the key be bare. It hangs for those who hither thither fare, Close interthreading nature with our kind. 
